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Chromium effects and bioremediation

Chromium effects and bioremediation is a research topic within Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the bioremediation of chromium-contaminated environments using microbial processes, as well as the health impacts and mechanisms of chromium toxicity, genotoxicity, and carcinogenicity. It explores the interactions of chromium with microorganisms, plants, and human health, addressing the detoxification, resistance, and reduction of chromium in various environmental matrices.

  • Chromium
  • Bioremediation
  • Microbes
  • Heavy Metals
  • Genotoxicity
  • Carcinogenicity
  • Environmental Health
  • Bacteria
  • Hexavalent Chromium
  • Soil Remediation
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Chromium effects and bioremediation

Which countries lead Chromium effects and bioremediation research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.3k and 579 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 India 579 works
  3. 3 United States 227 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 102 works
  5. 5 Brazil 95 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 88 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 83 works
  8. 8 Egypt 76 works
  9. 9 Iran 64 works
  10. 10 France 62 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 48.7%India: 21.6%United States: 8.5%Pakistan: 3.8%6 others listed: 17.5%49%largest
China1,304 · 48.7%India579 · 21.6%United States227 · 8.5%Pakistan102 · 3.8%6 others listed468 · 17.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Chromium effects and bioremediation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Chromium effects and bioremediation research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 77 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 41 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 26 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 22 works
  7. 7 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 18 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 16 works
  9. 9 University of the PunjabPakistan 16 works
  10. 10 China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Chromium effects and bioremediation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Chromium effects and bioremediation include Kai You Wang, Marko Sarstedt and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Chromium effects and bioremediation?

The most cited paper in Chromium effects and bioremediation is "Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic" (Mahdi Balali‐Mood, Kobra Naseri, Zoya Tahergorabi et al., 2021), with 3,112 citations. Next come "Remediation of heavy metal(loid)s contaminated soils – To mobilize or to immobilize?" (2,035) and "Chromium toxicity in plants" (2,024).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic Mahdi Balali‐Mood, Kobra Naseri, Zoya Tahergorabi et al. · Frontiers in Pharmacology Open access 13 Apr 2021 3,112
2 Remediation of heavy metal(loid)s contaminated soils – To mobilize or to immobilize? Nanthi Sirangie Bolan, Anitha Kunhikrishnan, Ramya Thangarajan et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials 21 Dec 2013 2,035
3 Chromium toxicity in plants Arun Kumar Shanker, Carlos Ricardo Hanco Cervantes, Herminia Loza‐Tavera et al. · Environment International 4 Apr 2005 2,024
4 The determination of chromic oxide in faeces samples by atomic absorption spectrophotometry CH Williams, D. J. David, O. Iismaa · The Journal of Agricultural Science Nov 1962 1,875
5 Bacterial biosorbents and biosorption K. Vijayaraghavan, Yeoung‐Sang Yun · Biotechnology Advances 19 Feb 2008 1,866
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Where is Chromium effects and bioremediation research done?

The largest centres of Chromium effects and bioremediation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Nanjing (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lahore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 236 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 77 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 68 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 58 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 58 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 55 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 42 works
  8. 8 LahorePakistan 39 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 39 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LahorePK · 39.1 works5.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Chromium effects and bioremediation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Chromium effects and bioremediation?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Central South University and Zhejiang University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an University of …China University of …Zhejiang UniversityCentral South Univer…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 58.217.2%16.0×15 +18.2%
2Central South UniversityChina 57.312.1%4.1×26 +21.0%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.116.5%2.5×22 +47.1%
4Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 54.536.3%8.2×8 +0.5%
5Beijing Normal UniversityChina 53.733.8%3.3×9 +62.2%
6Tongji UniversityChina 49.219.2%2.9×15 +52.2%
7Saveetha UniversityIndia 47.923.0%3.3×10 +754.4%
8Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 46.320.5%3.8×12 +48.6%
9Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 44.514.3%10.4×13 +13.7%
10Suzhou University of Science and TechnologyChina 42.820.9%12.1×9 +226.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Chromium effects and bioremediation, country by country

Is Chromium effects and bioremediation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Chromium effects and bioremediation.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Chromium effects and bioremediation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Chromium effects and bioremediation0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Chromium effects and bioremediation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Chromium effects and bioremediation10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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